I-tunes not loading onto Audacity properly

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Audacity 1.2.x is now obsolete. Please use the current Audacity 2.1.x version.

The final version of Audacity for Windows 98/ME is the legacy 2.0.0 version.
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I-tunes not loading onto Audacity properly

Post by Reinhold » Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:01 pm

Complete Newb, attempting to load i-tunes from windows media player onto Audacity, everything works fine in procedure but all it loads is about 2-3 sec.s? The end use is that I am trying to change the format of my I-tunes to WAV to use in Windows Movie Maker, any help would be appreciated, thanx

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Re: I-tunes not loading onto Audacity properly

Post by kozikowski » Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:52 pm

iTunes® music is generally saved in Apple AAC format which is an H.264 variation. Windows Medial Player® saves music in Windows Media format, another H.264 variation. Audacity 1.2 doesn't understand either one.

Audacity in any version doesn't do format translations very well.

Convert your music using Super or Switch (Google) to the format you want.

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Re: I-tunes not loading onto Audacity properly

Post by Reinhold » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:33 pm

Thank you Koz, I loaded Switch and it did exactly what I wanted, thanx again, Reinhold

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